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al420
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No benching is fairly common from what I understand. They are very particular...you think some of us are bad about fluff work, etc... these guys are terrible about it. But at 76k when you CJ 220k you can say what you want IMO.
Shoulder is fine. I am just re-working my current load. Too much on the heavy days and not enough on the light ones.
Pussed out of a squat workout today - was supposed to be standard squat/bench/military, but I ended up doing a Leg workout that would have made Weider proud...lol
I started off doing fronts, worked to 185 and then did a set of back squats w/ 185..did 2 reps and racked (I swear it felt like 405).Then did leg press, hack squats, and some isolation work... even did calfs and abs. Total dog shit. The hacks felt nice. I bottom the machine out and kept it rather light and did loads of reps. I am going to lay low this week, kinda play around. I need a mental break so I am going to take it.
Shoulder is fine. I am just re-working my current load. Too much on the heavy days and not enough on the light ones.
Pussed out of a squat workout today - was supposed to be standard squat/bench/military, but I ended up doing a Leg workout that would have made Weider proud...lol
I started off doing fronts, worked to 185 and then did a set of back squats w/ 185..did 2 reps and racked (I swear it felt like 405).Then did leg press, hack squats, and some isolation work... even did calfs and abs. Total dog shit. The hacks felt nice. I bottom the machine out and kept it rather light and did loads of reps. I am going to lay low this week, kinda play around. I need a mental break so I am going to take it.
Cynical Simian
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Have I mentioned that straight sets deads are a bad idea unless you want to get very loaded, very fast? Sounds like you buried yourself pretty nicely.
Did you get around to rereading Practical Programming yet? It still seems like you're still making training harder than it should be. Just stick to something similar to one of the intermediate layouts (straight sets once per week for everything except deads, another day with lower-volume work sets) and you should be able to make weekly progress if you're conservative enough with the weight jumps.
Did you get around to rereading Practical Programming yet? It still seems like you're still making training harder than it should be. Just stick to something similar to one of the intermediate layouts (straight sets once per week for everything except deads, another day with lower-volume work sets) and you should be able to make weekly progress if you're conservative enough with the weight jumps.
al420
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Thanks CS. I did reread the intermediate chapter. I did not apply it. I think between the way I have been DL'ing (especially the rack pulls over the past month) and then back squatting after a layoff and decently heavy the day after a big DL session. Plus the PC's are a new lift to me. I may scratch them until I switch to the oly gym (they are more of a sloppy musclean IMO anyway right now, I catch high, and am uncoached to date). I think that will be this month - next week or week after, Arnolds impacted my schedule - my coach took 7th overall I think.
Passin through.
BiggT
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Al, peck decks are for hippies and homos.
How is the o-lifting going? I learned in high school, and I found a little ''gym'' near-by, it was a guy who owned a business renting/delivering those 5 gallon drums of water for office coolers, and he had a "gym" in the back, an Eleiko bar and bumpers. I'd try to make it up a couple times a month for a little advice and coaching, and he HATED benching.....first thing he'd do is tell me my snacthes looked like shit and that's how he knew I'd been benching, lol....PA, like TX, is a very meat-headed state, and I HAD to bench, lol....but it does tighten the shoulder girdle.....he had an incline, but no flat bench, he hated it, he said it was for ''long-haired hippies'', lol. (you need to think of your history to appreciate it, they threw the press out of competition in '73 and all the lifters who were disproportionately good at it, turned to powerlifting, because a good presser is a good presser and they were all good benchers after a little training on the lift, which experienced a boom in the early-70's)
The guy was in his late 60's (he is still at it today) and could split snatch (nuts scraping the floor) his bodyweight of 160 all day long.....he also did the olympic press, trained it like it was still a contested lift, Soviet style with the double pump or whatever the hell it's called. He always told me it was a shame they eliminated it, because then I could actually compete in oly lifting and be good at something, lol.....cool place though, still up and running.......he also called me a hippie and some other choice words because I squat snatched and squat cleaned....I never did like that damn split style....but the WWII generation LOVED it.
How is the o-lifting going? I learned in high school, and I found a little ''gym'' near-by, it was a guy who owned a business renting/delivering those 5 gallon drums of water for office coolers, and he had a "gym" in the back, an Eleiko bar and bumpers. I'd try to make it up a couple times a month for a little advice and coaching, and he HATED benching.....first thing he'd do is tell me my snacthes looked like shit and that's how he knew I'd been benching, lol....PA, like TX, is a very meat-headed state, and I HAD to bench, lol....but it does tighten the shoulder girdle.....he had an incline, but no flat bench, he hated it, he said it was for ''long-haired hippies'', lol. (you need to think of your history to appreciate it, they threw the press out of competition in '73 and all the lifters who were disproportionately good at it, turned to powerlifting, because a good presser is a good presser and they were all good benchers after a little training on the lift, which experienced a boom in the early-70's)
The guy was in his late 60's (he is still at it today) and could split snatch (nuts scraping the floor) his bodyweight of 160 all day long.....he also did the olympic press, trained it like it was still a contested lift, Soviet style with the double pump or whatever the hell it's called. He always told me it was a shame they eliminated it, because then I could actually compete in oly lifting and be good at something, lol.....cool place though, still up and running.......he also called me a hippie and some other choice words because I squat snatched and squat cleaned....I never did like that damn split style....but the WWII generation LOVED it.
al420
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BiggT said:
Well I am in Austin, so I will go w/ hippie over homo. I hated myself for doing them, and to think if I had never met you or CS I would still think they were perfectly straight.
My O lifting begins in a week or so - coach competed in the Arnolds so he is taking a week off from the gym - he placed 7th overall (I think), right above Donny Shankle (one of Glenn Pendlays lifters).
I was over there the other day taking my son to train w/ his coach and there was a 60yr old russian in there doing one armed snatches w/ 74K @ I bet 80k or somethig like that, big guy but not huge by any means. Real Sick.
